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[[underlined]] Oct. 16 [[/underlined]]

Left camp at 10:30 A.M. & climbed onto big Mesa, then over this to base of Mts. & up long, well graded road to Mogollon, then 4 miles on up the gulch and camped in canyon around 5 miles from summit. At camp aneroid read 5200 feet, at highest part of grade 7300 feet, at Mogollon 6850 and at camp in gulch 7850.

Upper Sovoran zone runs up on hot slopes to at least 7500 feet, [[strikethrough]] while [[/strikethrough]] and is characterized by Pinus edulis, juniperus monosperma & pachyphloea, Quercus grisea, Yucca baccata, Nolina, Dasylirion, Opuntia schottii & Cercocarpus parvifolius. Much of the zone is barren or open short grass mesa or slopes. 

Transition zone covers the cold slopes down to the level of Mogollon, a little below 7000 feet and runs up on open north slopes to at least 8000 feet. Is it charachrized by scattered yellow pine, abundance of scrubby Quercus gambeli, Pseudoacacia [[nionpinenus?]], Ceanothus [[blank space]], garryia, Quercus leucaphylla?